ACO Music in Time Part Two: Mahler to Now

 

6pm, Sunday 1 May | The Neilson

Join Richard Tognetti and the ACO for a two-part panoramic adventure spanning centuries of music.

Part Two sees the ACO take a deep dive into the glorious, inventive and often shocking music of the last hundred years. Richard and the Orchestra pick up the journey at the turn of the century with Mahler’s Symphony No. 4, before weaving through the music of Webern and Debussy.

The ACO then leaps from Europe into the invention of North America, with Walker’s sublimly beautiful Lyric for Strings and Florence Price’s Clementine. Arvo Pärt and Australia’s own Peter Sculthorpe round out the 20th century before didgeridoo player and composer William Barton joins the Orchestra onstage for a performance of his own work, Hypersonic, bringing the concert to a mesmerising close.

 

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Director and guest artists
Richard Tognetti Director and Violin
William Barton Vocals and Didgeridoo

Program
MAHLER / BARTON / TOGNETTI How We Feel (2021)
GUSTAV MAHLER Symphony No.4: IV. Ruhevoll (abridged) (1900)
ANTON WEBERN (arr. strings) Five movements Op.5: III. Sehr lebhaft (1909)
CLAUDE DEBUSSY (arr. Tognetti) The Girl with the Flaxen Hair (1910)
KURT WEILL (arr. Tognetti) Alabama Song (1927)
GEORGE WALKER Lyric for Strings (1946)
FLORENCE PRICE (arr. strings) Negro Folksongs in Counterpoint: II. Clementine. Tempo moderato (1951)
ARVO PÄRT Collage on B-A-C-H: I. Toccata (Preciso) (1964)
PETER SCULTHORPE Sonata for Strings No.1 (excerpts) (1983) [ACO commission]
CAROLINE SHAW Entr'acte (2011)
JOHN LUTHER ADAMS (arr. strings) The Wind in High Places: II. Maclaren Summit (2017)
WILLIAM BARTON Hypersonic

This concert will go for approximately 70 mins with no interval.

 

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